I would like to test the influence of solvation parameters in implicit solvation models and wonder which codes are freely available as standalone programs for protein folding of small proteins, and which use energy minimization approaches instead of dynamics, so I am not looking for molecular dynamics codes.
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Are open-source codes available to study protein folding?
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Besides Pedro's suggestions, you could also look at Quantum Espresso, which among other things allows for Car-Parrinello computations. It is (or at least, it was) written in Fortran 90.
There is also an interesting program called foldit which looks like a puzzle game with a nice GUI but in the background it actually studies protein folding.
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Besides Pedro's suggestions, you could also look at Quantum Espresso, which among other things allows for Car-Parrinello computations. It is (or at least, it was) written in Fortran 90.
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